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Brent Lang and the art of taking the next lane
An unexpected relay assignment helped turn Brent Lang into an Olympic gold medalist. At Vocera, and now as USA Swimming’s board chair, he has kept finding reasons to give people room to surprise him.
David Carey
David Carey is the Chief Executive Officer of Preceptis Medical, the Golden Valley, Minnesota company behind the Hummingbird Tympanostomy Tube System, an FDA-cleared device that lets clinicians place pediatric ear tubes in the office without general anesthesia. Appointed CEO in July 2025, Carey brings three decades of commercial leadership across the medical device industry, including senior roles at Pristine Surgical, Stryker, Medtronic, and Invuity, where he helped guide the company through an IPO before its acquisition by Stryker. At Preceptis, he is focused on scaling the Hummingbird device to more surgeons and families nationwide.
Vocera Communications, now part of Stryker
Vocera Communications builds the hands-free, voice-controlled communication tools that hospitals use to connect care teams in real time. Founded in 2000 and inspired by the Star Trek communicator badge, Vocera's wearable Badge and Smartbadge, plus its Vina app and Engage intelligent-workflow platform, let clinicians reach a colleague by name, role, or group with a single voice command. Used in roughly 2,300 facilities worldwide and integrated with more than 150 clinical and operational systems, Vocera went public in 2012 (NYSE: VCRA) and was acquired by medical-technology giant Stryker in February 2022 for about $3.09 billion, where it now anchors Stryker's digital care coordination portfolio.